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On the first day of a seven-week trial, the applicant in a class action against Monsanto has taken aim at the agrochemical giant’s “same old approach” to undermining decades of evidence it says demonstrates the cancer-causing properties of popular weed killer Roundup.
Agrochemical giant Monsanto is digging in for a fight in a class action over its alleged carcinogenic weed killer, Roundup, having refused to budge in mediation despite a $16 billion settlement in the US.
The judge overseeing a class action against Monsanto over its weed killer has rejected the agrochemical giant's application to amend the common questions to be decided at a liability trial to account for its alternative defence.
An upcoming three-month trial in a class action against agrochemical giant Monsanto has been vacated after the applicant's key expert withdrew from the case.
Maurice Blackburn is being sued by a factory worker who claims the law firm's negligence in failing to file a lawsuit on time cost him the opportunity to recoup significant damages from his former employer for physical and psychological injuries sustained while on the job.
A dozen group members can opt out of Maurice Blackburn's Roundup class action against Monsanto and switch to a competing class action being run by Sydney-based LHD Lawyers that was closed and temporarily stayed in May last year.